DG Vanzara, a top police officer accused in the alleged fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan has revealed that the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was "interrogated" in the case as the probe agencies, under the then UPA government at the centre were "desperate to destabilise then Gujarat CM by implicating him".

Ishrat Jahan&nbsp | &nbspPhoto Credit:&nbspBCCL

New Delhi: DG Vanzara, a top police officer accused in the alleged fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan has revealed that the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was "interrogated" in the case as the probe agencies, under the then UPA government at the centre were "desperate to destabilise then Gujarat CM by implicating him". Vanzara's claims add a murky new twist to one of the most sensitive and politically charged criminal investigations in the country.

In his sworn affidavit to the CBI, Vanzara has said that probe agencies were "desperate to destabilize then Gujarat CM by implicating him". In a bid to pin the Ishrat Jahan case on then CM Modi, the investigator carried out an interrogation. He has said that the interrogation ‘material was not placed on record’ by the investigators.

The investigating team included one Mr Satish Verma, IPS- a UPA plant, who was the mastermind behind the entire gameplan- Vanzara has said in the letter. Verma was later posted as CRPF Inspector General in Tripura sector.

Ishrat, 19, Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai, Amjadali Akbarali Rana and Zeeshan Johar were killed in an alleged fake encounter by the state police on the outskirts of Ahmedabad on June 15, 2004. Police claimed they were LeT terrorists who had come to assassinate the then chief minister Narendra Modi.

EXCLUSIVE: 'UPA conducted secret interrogations to implicate then Gujarat CM Modi in Ishrat Jahan case'Description:DG Vanzara, a top police officer accused in the alleged fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan has revealed that the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was "interrogated" in the case as the probe agencies, under the then UPA government at the centre were "desperate to destabilise then Gujarat CM by implicating him". Times Now